Geoff Chandler - creative chessplayer, humorous writer, learned chess coach, and occasional friend of the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) recently posted "The Jerome Gambit" on his "The Planet Greenpawn" blog on the Daily Chess website.
He starts off with "This is my yacht, ‘The Jerome Gambit’ (St Jerome* is the patron saint of lost causes.)" and eventually gets around to presenting the game zapiroimihai - DeltaSquare RedHotPawn.com, 2022 (1-0, 21).
We will get to that game later.
I have mentioned Goeff's work a number of times on this blog.
His humor is well illustrated in "Mars Attacks!" where he "annotates" a Jerome Gambit game with pictures from
the infamous 1962 bubble-gum card set, from Bubbles, Inc. -- "Mars Attacks!"
His insight into chess and how it is played at different levels is reflected in his "Blunder Table" - which accidentally and unintentually justifies the sacrifices in the Jerome Gambit, at least for club players.
Geoff and Dimitrov Todor are responsible for the "drawn" assessment of the Blackburne defense in the Jerome Gambit - although play is complicated enough that it can be difficult for either player to reach the split point. See "Tidying Up - Or Messing Up?"
It is time to present the aforementioned game, and although White wins, it must be labelled
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ke6 7.Qf5+ Kd6 8.Nc3 Qf6 9.Qh5 Qxf2+ 10.Kd1 Nf6 11.Qg5 g6 12.Ne2 h6 13.Qg3 Nxe4 14.Qb3 Rf8 15.c3 Nd3 16.c4 Qxg2 17.Qxd3+ Kc6 18.Qd5+ Kb6 19.Nd4 Qxh1+ 20.Kc2 Bxd4 21.Qb5 checkmate
(*"No; the Jerome gambit is not named after St. Jerome. His penances, if he did any, were in atonement of rather minor transgressions compared with the gambit" – Emanuel Lasker, Lasker’s Chess Magazine, March 1906)
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